Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

and how it was impossible to get rid of that without it messing up the clarity of the H-arrow. but darn it they'd drawn this cutesy cartoon cutout that sorta vaguely looks like rosa parks i guess, and the blurb has already been written and do you want us to just throw all that work away?

the semiotics of that are weird -- are we supposed to think that hillary has defied time and causality by somehow being the inspiration for rosa parks?

That logo is grotesque

"Lady, you need to get up and move off of that 'H'."

wow what an inclusive brand

she can transform her H into the twin towers if she gets another question about wall street funding

come to the front, Ms Parks, and help me rebuild Wall Street.

i think they just got their campaign logo mixed up with the google doodle. tomorrow it'll be an animated gif of tesla, or redone in the style of piet mondrian. #neoplasticism turns 100 years old today! now you know how to say "hello" in dutch!

I'm not at all mad at the Rosa Parks logo

i'm not /mad/ at it, since it can't possibly have been intended to mean what it seems to mean. it's just kinda dumb.

It's dumb if you're predisposed to see everything Clinton does as opportunistic and dumb. It's also more than what Google did today.

Rosa Parks deserves all the recognition she receives. Weaving her into your own campaign logo is a bit on the crass side, but it's not any different than the usual move of wrapping oneself in the flag, and she's a much better symbol to associate with than, say, Dukakis sitting in a battle tank for a photo op.

I haven't checked for hot takes on this Michael Eric Dyson piece, subtitled "Why Hillary Clinton will do more for black people than Obama"

https://newrepublic.com/article/124391/yes-she-can

is it an only reagan can go to china argument bc tbh i find that a v convincing line of thought

seems like the thread title was prophetic

https://twitter.com/politichickAM/status/671725201747415042

3 reasons I’m endorsing @SenTedCruz for Pres: Nat’l Security, Peace Thru Strength & Eidetic Memory. @TeamTedCruz #CruzCrew #CruzToVictory

what

dear lord

So, what, dude can instaneously recite the stats of various weapons systems from a Jane's manual from memory?

seems like the thread title was prophetic

heh

am i sposed to know who that woman is?

no, it's just odd

Meanwhile:

In states with some of the most competitive Senate contests, the concern is palpable, especially after weeks in which Mr. Trump has made a new series of inflammatory statements.

“If he carries this message into the general election in Ohio, we’ll hand this election to Hillary Clinton — and then try to salvage the rest of the ticket,” said Matt Borges, chairman of the Republican Party there, where Senator Rob Portman is facing a competitive re-election.

Pat Brady, the former state Republican chairman in Illinois, where Senator Mark S. Kirk is also locked in a difficult campaign, was even more direct. “If he’s our nominee, the repercussions of that in this state would be devastating,” Mr. Brady said.

Another Republican strategist in Ohio replied to an email asking about Mr. Trump’s effect in the state by sending a link to a Wikipedia page on the 1964 congressional elections, when Barry Goldwater’s presence atop the Republican ticket led the party to lose 36 House seats.

Those of you in open primary states: please vote for Trump.

am i sposed to know who that woman is?

I'll give you a hint, it's a woman whose famous for riding a bus and whose birthday happens to be today

okay hahahahahahahahahahaha Morbs was talking about Goole's Twitter link hahahahahahahahaha

Those of you in open primary states: please vote for Trump.

I kind of can't imagine GOP leadership/moneybags are so weak and toothless that they'd let Trump get the nom but yeah

we're getting to a point where it's really not impossible that trump wins the nomination

which is just kinda insane

I'm not sure what's 'better for america', that happening and this kinda being like the french 2002 election or rubio or cruz winning and having an actual shot at becoming president. I guess #2 is scarier but less embarrassing?

the cowardice in the GOP is remarkable, the totality of the self-serving shortsightedness

it's not just cowardice, they don't have any good angle to attack trump from

haha oh sure they do

he's not some unbeatable figure, the guy is an idiot that gets by on going unchallenged

that they can't bribe a proxy to attack him is the crazy part. I'm not saying Rience Priebus would be an effective vehicle for delivering an anti-Trump message, but you'd think one of these bajillionaire backers would be able to buy a candidate to serve as a front for GOP leadership attacks. This is cloak and dagger ratfucking stuff, sure, but the GOP used to be good at that shit!

'challenging him' just feeds the persecution complex that the reactionary white nationalist subculture is built on

what's the alternative

Voting for him in primaries.

I mean it depends on who's doing the challenging - if its someone who's an even bigger asshole, but (crucially) one who can be brought to heel when necessary, then problem solved. Trump can't be brought to heel, which is the problem.

xp

where exactly are they gonna find a bigger asshole than donald trump?

sometimes I wonder why trump wont go away, but literally every single time I go to the lunch counter in my building they have cnn on and that idiots fat face is on the screen

where exactly are they gonna find a bigger asshole than donald trump?

Cruz fits the bill. Christie too, if he didn't already have the obama-hug-taint

idk I'm just spitballing it's just weird to see all these powerful interests totally cowed and unwilling to invest/pick a side

they did invest and pick a side, that ship sunk

http://www.loriferber.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/u/s/uss-ronald-reagan-plaque.jpg

they did invest and pick a side, that ship sunk

then pick another side!

that anybody thought JEB! had any legs is also nuts, of course

Clip of Trump on CNN a minute ago (referring to Cruz, I assume): "If somebody hits me, I'm gonna hit him back so hard..." Made me think of Goodfellas: "If anyone complained twice, they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again." Cruz is going to turn up in a car trunk one of these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpmtMyr6orE

don't they already know that throwing money behind a losing candidate isn't effective, though? like, wouldn't they be looking seriously at romney's losses and, free of the must-be-insanely-conservative-to-win fixation, thinking that they can't even actually field anyone as 'presidential' right now?

the question is who 'they' are, like how large is the non-crazy part of the republican party at this point?

small but v v rich.

it's not just throwing money behind a candidate, it's financing attack ads etc.